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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Widow Quin suggest that Old Mahon do?
(a) Pray for him.
(b) Marry her.
(c) Follow Christy quickly before the tide comes in.
(d) Stay and rest for a few days.

2. At the end of Act II, Christy is summoned by:
(a) Pegeen.
(b) The peelers.
(c) Father Reilly.
(d) The village girls.

3. When the village girls arrive, they interrupt Christy as he is:
(a) Admiring himself in a mirror.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Trying to escape.
(d) Snooping.

4. Christy tells the girls and the Widow Quin that his father wanted him to:
(a) Marry an old, overweight, half blind, widow of ill repute.
(b) Wed the young girl next door so that he would have a maid.
(c) Move out.
(d) Plow his four acres of potatoes without a horse.

5. The people of Pegeen's village can be characterized as:
(a) Religious zealots.
(b) High society.
(c) Peasants.
(d) Devil worshippers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Old Mahon insist the Widow Quin examine?

2. Which character in the story seems to have the most self-doubt?

3. Which character has the most at stake due to the appearance of Christy?

4. When the village girls come to meet Christy, the one item they do not bring him is?

5. The villagers seem very religious, yet they treat Christy with:

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